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Word Category Conversion Revisited: The Case of Adjectives and Participles in L1 and L2 German

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
One of the hypotheses about mental representation of conversion (i.e., zero-derivation) claims that converted forms are a product of a costly mental process that converts a word’s category into another one when needed, i.e., depending on the syntactic ...
Andreas Opitz   +2 more
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Evidentiality in Dialects of Khanty; pp. 199-211 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2014
Evidentiality is marked grammatically in the northern Khanty dialects Obdorsk, Synja, and Kazym. Verbs that express evidential modality take the same form as the verbal participle (the derivational morpheme t marks the present participle, and m marks the
Márta Csepregi
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Using Grammar Dimensions to Transform Multilingual Teachers From Rule Repeaters to Reason Givers

open access: yesTESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines a reconceptualized approach to grammar addressing fundamental gaps in multilingual teacher preparation. Traditional rule‐based training has historically prepared teachers to give prescriptive responses that shut down student inquiry rather than to reason about grammatical patterns in context.
Chris Corbel, Julie Choi, David Nunan
wiley   +1 more source

Is Gender‐Inclusive Language Left‐Wing? The Social Meaning of Four Gender‐Inclusive Strategies in French and German

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 268-281, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite evidence that gender‐inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left‐wing politics. This study explores the social meaning of gender‐inclusive language compared with generic masculines in French and German, using four gender ...
Benjamin Storme   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

German participle II constructions as adjuncts

open access: yes, 2013
The present investigation is concerned with German participles II (past participles) as lexical heads of adjuncts. Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the analysis presupposes a lexicalist conception of morphology and the ...
Zimmermann, Ilse
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Modeling epistemic distance: the Croatian l–participle

open access: yes, 2011
The Croatian l–participle (inflected for gender and number) is used to form the Perfect Tense (on je otišao), the Pluperfect Tense (on je bio otišao), the Present and Past Conditional (on bi otišao, on bi bio otišao), Future II in dependent clauses ...
Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan
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How do I publish the name of a new species of algae? A basic guide

open access: yesJournal of Phycology, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 749-756, June 2026.
Abstract A basic guide to the requirements of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants for the publication of a valid name of new species (and infraspecific taxa) of living algae is provided. It is intended to aid phycologists so that an accurate inventory of the world's algal diversity is achieved.
Michael D. Guiry
wiley   +1 more source

Phi-Agreement in Past Participle Constructions

open access: yes, 2016
I argue in this paper that agreeing past participles are merged externally in the derivation in V endorsed with a feature [+resultative], whereas non-agreeing past participles are bound to value a feature [+perfective] against the have-auxiliary.
Castillo, Concha
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Parameterizing Passive Participle Movement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Burzio (1986: 154–158) observes the contrast in word order between the associate DP and the participle in expletive passives in English (1) versus passives with postverbal subjects in Italian (2). (1) a. There’ve been some men arrested. b.
Caponigro, Ivano   +3 more
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Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 494-527, June 2026.
Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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